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What a Creep

Creepy Fairy Tale Origin Stories of The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood & Hansel and Gretel

What a Creep

Margo Donohue

True Crime, Entertainment News, News, Comedy

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What a Creep
Season 27, Episode 5
Creepy Fairy Tale Origin Stories!

Forget everything you learned from animated films… several beloved fairy tales are far from the joyous Disney creatures we have all seen since childhood. This episode discusses the dark worlds behind Little Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid, and Hansel and Gretel. The sanitized versions of these fairy tales we share today keep only hints of these origins, but the eerie stories lurking beneath the surface remind us that fairy tales weren’t always about happy endings.
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Trigger warning: Fictional Murder, Child Abduction, Werewolves, and Cannibalism
Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! 



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0:00.0

Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present.

0:08.4

This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst.

0:14.6

From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. Welcome to What a Creep. This is Margar Donahue. And my cohort

0:29.7

in creepitude, as always, is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. Hi, Sonia. Hello, my friend. Hello, my friend.

0:35.9

We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present.

0:39.3

We got a fun topic today.

0:41.0

We like to do these once in a while, just have like a creepy theme.

0:44.4

It's fictional, so this is not real stuff we're talking about here.

0:48.0

But it's creepy fairy tales.

0:49.8

Those fairy tales you love, the creepy origin stories for a few of them.

0:53.9

But before we get to that,

0:56.5

if this is your first time, welcome. And understand that at the end of the episode, we always talk

1:01.9

about someone who is not a creep. So that is a way to elevate everybody at the end of the show.

1:06.3

Give that little serotonin hit when you're done listening to the show. I've got a good one for us.

1:11.5

Excellent. You can follow us on Facebook. We do have a basic Facebook page, but that's where

1:16.2

people go to complain about our language. This is your warning. We use salty language in this

1:19.8

program. Yeah. Fuck. Shit. Damn. Now, social media is kind of crazy this week. We should say

1:26.8

that between the two of us, betwixt us, we use our private Facebook group the most to interact with people.

1:33.9

So you have to type in what a creep podcast group asked to join.

1:37.7

You do have to answer a few questions.

1:39.0

Just do the best you can.

1:40.2

And then you come in and join us.

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